Clasp



(No Model.) l' l' l G. N, BUCK CLASP. No. 515,950. f Patented Mar. 6, 1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

GEORGE N. BUCK, OF MATTON, ILLINOlS.

CLAS P.

SPECIFICATION Vforming part 0f Letters :Patent No. 515,950, dated March 6, 1894. Application led February 1,1893. Serial No. 460,583. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom. it may concern:

Beit known that l, GEORGE N. BUCK, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Mattoon, in the county of Coles and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clasps, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a certain new and improved clasp designed for use upon gloves, shoes, or other articles of a similar nature.

The invention is particularly adapted to the class of gloves and shoes in which a loose flap upon one of the meeting edges is stretch ed over the adjacent edge and fastened down upon it.

Theinvention is illustrated in the drawings by means of seven gures, of which- Figure 1 shows the clasp applied to the wrist of a glove, a part of the upper portion only of which is shown. Figs. 2 and 3 are perspectives of the two portions, of which one member of the clasp is preferably made. Fig. 4 is a perspective of the same portions put together. Fig. is a perspective showing the method of applying the said member to the glove or shoe. Fig. 6 is a section in line 6 6, of Fig. 7, showing the same member after its said application, and also the other` member in engagement therewith; and Fig. 7 is a section inline 7-'7, of Fig. 6.

Looking at Figs. 1, 6 and 7, wherein A is applied to the under loose edge of the wrist of a glove, and B to the loose liap that is stretched over the same, the clasp is seen to be composed of two members, C, D, of which the member, C, is composed of a substantially flat portion, c, secured to the wrist ofthe glove and having its opposite edges, c', c2, turned upward and inward and approaching each other toward the loose edge of the wrist. The member, D, consists of a substantially dat portion, d, joined by a narrow neck, d', to another flat portion, d2, fastened to the under side to the loose iiap, B. The neck, d is sufiiciently narrow to pass readily between the edges, c', c2, and the portion, d, is tted to slide beneath-the up and intorned edges, c', c2, but not between them. In engaging the fastening, the member, D, is drawn over upon the member, C, until the dat portion, d, slips down between the edges, c', o2, when it is allowed to slide backward beneath said edges. In this position it is held securely against disengagement in any direction, except by drawing it back the way it went in. The member, C, is preferably composed of two portions, c3, c4, shown in Figs. 2 and 3, which said portions contain notches or slots, c5, c6, entering from opposite ends and the added lengths of the two slits being substantially that ofthe member, C. In applying this member, C, to the wrist of the glove, a slit, c, is cut in the latter as shown in Fig. 5, the two portions, c3, c4, of the member, C, put together as seen in Fig. 4, and their straight edges crowded through the slit, a, as seen in Fig. 5. This slit extends only through the outer thickness of the glove or shoe, and after the member, C, is applied as seen in Fig. 5, the edges, c', c2, are spread apart, and the member, C, forced into the positionseen in Fig. 6, where the lining, a', of the glove protects the wrist against the edges of the pieces, c3, o4.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A clasp member consisting of two plates each having slots extending from one margin partly across the plate and the two being connected with the two slots inline and with the uncut portion of each plate lying in the slots of the opposite plate, substantially as set forth.

2. A clasp composed of two members, G,D, the member O being bent back upon itself along two opposite sides, forming a channel between the iii-turned portions, and consisting of two plates notched to be fitted together and attached to a garment substantially as set forth, and the member D having a tapering portion adapted to wedge between the inturned parts of the other member, and a portion, to be secured to a garment, connected to said tapering portion by a neck of a width less than the least distance between the inturned parts of the other member.

GEO. N. BUCK.

Witnesses:

G. S. RICHMOND, LEWIS L. LEHMAN. 

